There was recently a post on JewishGen about finding the names of immigrants arriving in Argentina via CEMLA. Using that, I found the name of someone who might be the sister of my maternal grandfather

Looking for descendants of Mr H Wolf(e) of Chicago born 1865-1875 in Lithuania. He emigrated to the USA (likely in the late 1880s) and settled in Chicago, IL. He had sisters in the USA with the surnam

While this is an IAJGS Records Access Alert posting, due to the number of people worldwide who are interested in New York City, NY, USA vital records I am also posting this on this forum. Jan Meisels

Is anyone going to Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, NY in the near future? I have 2 graves which need to be photographed. They are right next to one another. -- Rebecca Parmet drparmet@... Havertown

Hans Ulrich Meyer, born in Berlin in 1926, was (along with his parents) listed in the German Minority Census in May 1939. The list of Kindertransport individuals in JewishGen has him arriving 30 June

JRI-Poland is pleased to announce the full extraction of the Jewish names in the Kozienice Register of Residents INDEX (Skorowiedz do rejestru mieszkańców miasta Kozienice, 58/50/0/2/830). We identifi

On Sunday June 12, 2022 from 1:00-2:30 PM CDT, the MNJGS will host Dorothy Gross Nadosy presenting a program, What Yizkor Books Tell Us -- and Don't Tell Us, about those books, many in English transla

In April I published the book ''From the Children's Home to the Gas Chamber, and how some avoided their fate.'' It is a book about Belgium with a focus on the stories of child survivors. I conducted i

Hi, My great grandmother Rose Schreiber (born c 1884) reportedly had a sister who moved from Poland to South Africa. I don't know her first name nor the year she was born, but her father's name was Ge

Jewish Genealogical Society NY Meeting Wednesday, June 8, at 7:30 Eastern, via Zoom Strategies for Dealing with Endogamy Speaker: Paul Woodbury This webinar is a joint program of the Jewish Genealogic

Regarding the town name "Torpat" Borisov is a bit far from Latvia but anything is possible. The town name "Torpat" seems to be a town in today's Estonia (just north of Latvia). (Under the Tsar, both w

The BOF session for the Telsiai District Research Group will be held over Zoom on Sunday, June 12, 2022, at 12:00 noon (EDT). The Telsiai DRG includes the following towns: The Telsiai DRG includes the

As is the case with many Yizkor book chapters, there are two stories to be gleaned from “Portrait of the town at the beginning of the 20th century” about Radomsk in Poland. But is easy to see how they

Shalom, How is it that the Yizkor Book Project continues to thrive and expand on a regular basis for more than 26 years? I place this success in the continuing and also growing interest of people to l

Hello all, Does anyone have access to Sarospatak's birth records of year 1928? I would like to know who were the parents of Ervin SONNENFELD, born July 6, 1928 in Sarospatak/Hungary. Without this info

Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant & John Stedman Memorial Fund Award deadline has been extended The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) announces that the deadline for submissio

Hello, Could someone identify the village where my great-great-grandfather was born? He was died to Sarospatak (Hungary) where these children were born. So I guess his birthplace was not far away. Man

Would someone be kind enough to translate these tombstone inscriptions. Thank you. Richard Stower Yarmouth, Maine Researching Kolomyya: SECHESTOWER, SPIERMAN, THAU, BEISER, GRAFF. Chortkiv/Budaniv: GR

New Start Time!!! 1pm EDT Announcement: Jewish Genealogy SIG (JGSIG) June meeting - Tues June 14 2022 1- 2:30 pm EDT on Zoom RSVP TimeZoneConverter. https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/ If you want t

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The June 2, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice announcing that the Regional Court for Central Warsaw [Sąd Rejonowy dla Warszawy-Śródmie